“My father, my grandfather, my great grandfather, my uncles and great uncles were all born in Jerusalem and lived in the same neighborhood for more than 700 years. Neither Trump nor any U.S. president can erase our history with a stroke of a pen”.

People across the world are commemorating the Nakba Day which marks the anniversary of the forcible eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland by Israelis in 1948.

The Day of Catastrophe is officially marked every year on May 15, but the occasion this year coincides with a hunger strike being observed by more than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes during the 1948 war. Today, more than 7 million Palestinian refugees are living in exile, while 1.8 million Palestinians are living in the world’s largest open-air prison in the Gaza Strip.

The celebration of a ‘Memorial Day’ is only for ‘the chosen people’, not for others. The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) enforced tough restrictions across the occupied territories as Palestinians mark the 69th anniversary of the Nakba Day. This is the day when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian were expelled from their homes starting from 1947-48 and subsequent years…………….

prisoners in their own land: the same behavior of the terrorists in Aleppo, Idleb, Mosul

For over a decade, Palestinians in Gaza have been living under an Israeli blockade that affects almost all aspects of their lives. For most of patients in Gaza, the medical treatment they need is not available. They are forced to travel outside for treatment. However, Israel has been denying most of them travel permits.

The celebration of a ‘Memorial Day’ is only for ‘the chosen people’, not for others. The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) enforced tough restrictions across the occupied territories as Palestinians mark the 68th anniversary of the Nakba Day. This is the day when hundreds of thousands of Palestinian were expelled from their homes starting from 1947-48 and subsequent years. (ITA at 1+2)

It has been ten years since the strict, harsh and inhumane Israeli, blockade on the Gaza Strip. During the siege, the Israeli occupation has launched four major military offensives against the people of Gaza, in 2006, 2008/9, 2012 and 2014; the latter was the most deadly and destructive …

An honest Jew journalist and filmmaker, Max Blumenthal, outline the horrors produced by the Zionist entity in Gaza.“To understand the Gaza strip, to understand why this is happening, you must understand Zionism, you have to understand how the ethnically exclusivist Zionist state is maintained”, Blumenthal said.In this first-hand report on the July 2014 eruption of the decades-old Israel-Palestine conflict, Blumenthal looks closely at the political causes and the human consequences of fifty-one days of Israeli assaults on Gaza. The operations claimed 2,200 lives—mostly Palestinian, including 500 children—and displaced some 300,000. We have to hear and see, not to forget the origin and cause of the Resistance, which has also produced the 5 years of war in Syria…and still threatens all peoples of the Middle East…and beyond …
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Two honest Jews journalists and filmmakers, Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen, outline the horrors produced by the Zionist entity in Gaza.We have to hear and see, not to forget the origin and cause of the Resistance, which has also produced the 5 years of war in Syria…and still threatens all peoples of the Middle East…and beyond …
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“Spraying crop-killing pesticides, like opening fire at people of all ages and gender in the vicinity of the fence, puts civilian lives at risk and hurts livelihoods,” Shai Grunberg, spokesperson for Gisha, an Israeli rights group that works to promote freedom of movement for Palestinians in Gaza, told 972+.

When people’s schools, hospitals and mosques are purposefully bombed, when an illegal blockade strangles their economy, when they are deprived of electricity and water and when their homes and places of worship are taken over brutally, it is no wonder they will resist and fight against those committing those acts. With this rash of summary executions of Palestinian youths, seemingly sanctioned by the state

Also on Sunday, fierce clashes broke out inside the mosque when Israeli forces stormed the compound.

They fired tear gas to disperse the Palestinian worshippers, and injured three of them. The aggression has sparked international condemnation.

Israel is accused of provocation and attempts to change the ‘Status Quo’. The assault was also condemned as an unacceptable escalation ov violence against Muslims’ holy places in the occupied territories of Palestine.

Under the current ‘Status Quo’ arrangements, Jews are permitted to visit the mosque but can’t pray there [PDF see pg. 22].

NABLUS – Israeli settlers on Saturday morning attacked a Palestinian home with firebombs and rocks in the West Bank village of Duma, little more than a week after an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler and his father were killed in a deadly attack in the same village.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that “a number of extremist settlers hurled two fire bombs at the home of Mahmoud Fazza al-Kaabna.

The attackers also hurled stones at the house, with one of them hitting al-Kaabna in the upper body.

The incident followed after another deadly attack in the same village on July 31 that killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsha and critically wounded his parents and four-year-old brother.

Two 17-yo Palestinian boys were shot dead by Israeli forces in separate incidents amid clashes in the West Bank incited by the death of an 18-month-old child in a suspected Jewish arson attack on a Palestinian village.

Laith Fadel al-Khaladi, 17, was reportedly shot in the chest by an Israeli sniper near Bir Zeit, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank. The teen later died from his injuries at a hospital, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency quoted medical sources as saying.

Al-Khaladi is said to have been shot during anti-Israeli protests in the area, sparked by the deadly “price tag” attack in Kafr Duma.

Six other Palestinians were injured in clashes erupting during arson-related protests in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Friday, Haaretz reported.

One Palestinian was shot in the leg during protests in the West Bank city of Hebron; four others were wounded after police resorted to tear gas and rubber bullets against about 30 stone-throwers in the city of Halhul. One more Palestinian was injured with a rubber bullet in Kfar Kadum.

The colonial Zionist entity, by the so called ‘Planning and Building Committee’ issued permits for the construction of more than 900 settler units in different parts of the Palestinian occupied territory.

The Zionist occupationl has demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes as part of its settlement expansion projects.

Tel Aviv is now planning to displace hundreds of Palestinians as it’s pushing for the demolition of their homes in the village of Sussiya to build settlements.

HRW did it again.
The HRW tweet falsely claimed that the Syrian government used “barrel bombs”.

But, as Adam Johnson of ‘Fair.org’ ‘points out’, the picture is a still from a pirated copy of a video produced and uploaded on March 8 by the Danish TV station DR Nyheder. The drone video shows the immense damage done by last summer’s Israeli bombing of Gaza.

HRW also used a wrongly attribute picture to claim that a person hurt by Nazis in Ukraine was a victim of the Russian president Putin.

This is the third time HRW is using a wrongly attributed pictures to depict current enemies of U.S. imperialism as having causing the damage the U.S. empire and/or its friends have caused. That is not mere bias by HRW. It is willful fraud.

Afshin Rattansi goes underground on the recent Israeli attack on Gaza. Norman Finkelstein, author of ‘Method and Madness – The hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza’, says the Goldstone report was ‘devastating’ in its conclusion that Israel was trying to punish and humiliate the citizens of Gaza, and that Israel has a ‘maniac’ for a head of state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya’alon to go ahead with a plan to demolish some 400 Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank because they were allegedly funded by the European Union.

Netanyahu says these properties, in Palestinian land, were built without the Zionist entity permit.

In the 1950s, Shimon Peres made a secret deal with the French to buy a nuclear reactor like theirs. While the Dimona facility was going up, Intelligence reports reached Washington DC that Israel was building an atom bomb. Israel made claims that Dimona was for “peaceful purposes only.” Ben Gurion was summoned to Washington. President Kennedy feared an arms race in the Middle East, and demanded inspections.

In 1961, when inspectors were finally allowed to visit the facility, they were tricked. They were shown a “fake” control room on the ground floor, but were NOT shown the 6 floors beneath it, nor were they even aware of them. This is where the plutonium was being made. Israel was very proud they had FOOLED the Americans. After Kennedy’s assassination, the pressure was off Israel. America’s next president, Lyndon Johnson turned a blind eye to Israeli action.

In 2001, an Israeli Arab Issam Makhoul, broke the taboo in parliament. He accused the Israeli government of “turning a small country into a poisonous nuclear waste bin. The entire world knows that Israel is a vast nuclear, biological… and chemical warehouse that is used as an anchor… for the nuclear arms race in the middle east.” He outraged his colleagues, and was not allowed to finish his speech, but he had made his point.

“Why are the Americans looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? I can tell them where there are weapons of mass destruction… including nuclear weapons. They are in Dimona, in Haifa Bay in the Eilabun mountain… and in the area of Sakneen, Yolfhata. Let them send their inspectors to me… and I will lead them by the hand and show them,” Issam says.

The Palestinian Authority will officially join the ICC on April 1, while Israel is not a member.

The International Criminal Court in the Hague has opened a “preliminary examination” of possible war crimes conducted on Palestinian territory during the last year’s military conflict with Israel in Gaza.

In a statement released on the ICC website, its Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda promised that her office “will conduct its analysis in full independence and impartiality,” mentioning that no deadline has been set for announcing the results of the investigation.

The US condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a preliminary investigation into Israel’s crimes calling it a “tragic irony”.

So, the REAL question is,

“Is the International Criminal Court legitimate enough to go ahead with their investigation of Israel for war crimes committed against the people locked in an open air prison called Gaza?”

To whom it may concern,
We are Israeli citizens, active against our government’s policies of racism, occupation and apartheid.

We have learned that the VU University council in Amsterdam has tried to prevent an important panel by the Palestina forum from taking place. An Israeli citizen, Ronnie Barkan, was also scheduled to take part in the panel. This move by the University demonstrates that it has actively chosen a discriminating manner of behavior, deciding which Israeli speakers are legitimate and which are not.

“IT IS DISGRACEFUL THAT THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE CHAMPIONS OF FREE SPEECH ARE ATTEMPTING TO SILENCE AN INTELLIGENT, HUMANISTIC DISCUSSION OF OUR GOVERNMENT’S APARTHEID POLICIES, FOLLOWING DECADES OF OCCUPATION AND ETHNIC CLEANSING, GIVEN THAT IT IS JUST SIX MONTHS AFTER THIS GOVERNMENT CARRIED OUT A MASSACRE IN THE GAZA STRIP, IN WHICH 800 CHILDREN WERE KILLED…”

Apartheid runs contrary to the proclaimed values of The Netherlands. The silencing of academic and political discussion of human rights violations runs contrary to the freedom of speech which Dutch universities endorse.

The argument that the debate was not balanced is ridiculous and hypocritical. The Dutch public sphere is full of debates on the issue of Israel, in which no speaker is invited to criticize Israel’s apartheid, war crimes and calls for sanctions against Israel because of its actions. In fact… … …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized some European governments for siding with the Palestinians over a bid at the UN that demands the withdrawal of the Tel Aviv regime from occupied territories.

Israel occupied the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem al-Quds, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank during the Six-Day War of 1967. Tel Aviv withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but its forces have been carrying out regular deadly forays into the besieged sliver ever since the pullout.

The Settlement Minister in the Palestinian Authority (PA), Ziad Abu Ein, died after a confrontation with Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) during a West Bank protest, witnesses and medics said. President Mahmoud Abbas called Abu Ein’s death a “brutal act”.

Ahmed Bitawi, the director of the Ramallah hospital, told AFP Abu Ein “was martyred after being beaten in the chest.”

Mahmoud Aloul, another leading member of the Fatah movement, told AP the incident occurred when he and Abu Ein joined dozens of protesters carrying olive tree saplings during a protest against land confiscations near the West Bank village of Turmus Aya.

Abu Ein was in charge of a Palestinian Authority department, whose work concerned Israeli settlements and the Israeli separation barrier. Previously, he served as deputy minister for prisoner affairs.

Abu Ein’s death follows violent overnight clashes near Shilo, an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank located 28 miles (45km) north of Jerusalem.

Dozens of Israeli settlers have stormed into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds amid rising violence at the holy site.

Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, the director general of the Organization for Muslim Endowments and al-Aqsa Affairs, said the incident took place on Monday when “as many as 50 Jewish settlers forced their way into the al-Aqsa (Mosque) compound through the al-Magharbeh Gate under tight protection of the Israeli police.

Israel has tried over the past decades to change the demographic makeup of al-Quds by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.

The IOF troops (Israeli Occupation Forces, SFP note) did nothing to stop Israeli settlers from attacking Palestinian villagers, according to videos released by the Yesh Din rights group, showing soldiers pointing guns at Palestinians while Israelis are throwing stones from behind their backs.

In the three amateur videos released by the Yesh Din human rights group, the IOF soldiers appear to be protecting the masked Jewish settlers from Yitzhar during their confrontation with Palestinians in the village of Urif in the West Bankon Tuesday.

6 people have been killed and at least 10 wounded when 2 Palestinians attacked Jew settlers worshipers with knives, axes and a pistol in a synagogue in Occupied Jerusalem this morning at 7:00.

Both the 2 Palestinian were shot dead on the spot by Israeli Police.

According to the UK’s Foreign Office, one of the Jews killed in the attack was a British-Israeli, rabbi Moshe Twersky, the head of the English speaking Yeshiva Toras Moshe, an institution for religious studies established in the Occupied Jerusalem.

The other 3 Jews killed are US citizens.
In total, during the attack 4 Zionist settlers were killed: all were rabbis.

Yesterday, a Palestinian bus driver was found hanged inside his vehicle at a depot in West occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli police said the man committed suicide, while the driver’s family claim he was lynched by Israelis, as evidenced by the photos of the corpse.

At least 13 Palestinian citizens were nabbed by the Israeli forces at dawn Wednesday following a series of abrupt combing operations, home-raids and abduction campaigns launched across the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources said the Israeli forces stormed Berkin, West of Jenin, overnight and raked through the town, PIC reported.

The attack culminated in a series of home-raids targeting at least 11 Palestinian family houses and the abduction of a Palestinian civilian. A number of Palestinian citizens were provocatively interrogated in the process.

Eye-witnesses reported that the Israeli forces rounded up Palestinian youth Ahmad Sami Ghanam, 23, following an assault on his family house.

NOTICE TO READERS

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